Camping de Cauberg

The Cauberg is mostly famed for its cycling and cycling competitions, including the Amstel Gold Race, two Tours de France and the 2018 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships. If you'd like to tackle the hill on your own wheels, the climb is 1,200 metres with a gradient of 12%. If you've no clue what the above even means, ramble around the region's towns and cities instead and zip across the border to days in Belgium and Germany. The site's local town is Valkenburg (five minutes' drive), home to famed marl houses as well as marl quarries redesigned as caves (one includes a replica of the catacombs of Rome). You may also like a submerge in the sauna and wellness resort of Thermae 2000; whatever you opt for, a whizz on the aerial lift of Valkenburg's Wilhelminatoren viewing tower is a must. Slightly further afield, Maastricht is 20 minutes' drive away, and Belgium's Liège and Germany's Aachen are both within half an hour.